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Satia, Priya.
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Galton, Samuel, 1753-1832.
Firearms industry and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Industrial revolution -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
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Satia, Priya.
Galton, Samuel, 1753-1832.
Firearms industry and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Industrial revolution -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
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Empire of guns : the violent making of the industrial revolution / Priya Satia.
by
Satia, Priya.
Penguin Press, c2018.
Call #:
338.47623 S253e
Subjects
Galton, Samuel, 1753-1832.
Firearms
industry
and
trade
--
Great
Britain
--
History
--
18th
century
.
Industrial revolution
--
Great
Britain
.
Great
Britain
--
Economic conditions
--
18th
century
.
ISBN:
9780735221864
Description:
xiv, 528 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Text in English.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-507) and index.
Contents:
Part one: The industrial life of guns. The state and the gun
industry
, part I: 1688-1756 ; Who made guns? ; The state and the gun
industry
, part II: 1756-1815 ; The state, war, and industrial revolution
--
Part two: The social life of guns. Interlude: A brief lesson from African
history
; Guns and money ; Guns in arms, part I: Home ; Guns in arms, part II: Abroad
--
Part three: The moral life of guns. Interlude: A brief account of the Society of Friends ; Galton's disownment ; The gun
trade
after 1815 ; Opposition to the gun
trade
after 1815.
Summary:
A reframing of the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and the emergence of industrial capitalism presents them as inextricable from the gun
trade
and the story of disgraced Quaker gunmaker Samuel Galton.
We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. [This] rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and
Britain
's prosperous gun
trade
at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of
Britain
's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on
industry
for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in
Britain
's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun
trade
, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex"
--
that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of
history
--
a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.
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